Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick and "Eyes Wide Shut" - Brossura

Raphael, Frederic

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ISBN 10: 0345437764 ISBN 13: 9780345437761

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1999

Riassunto

The author describes his experiences working with Stanley Kubrick on his last film, "Eyes Wide Shut"

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L'autore:

The American-born, British-educated writer Frederic Raphael is the author of nineteen novels and four short story collections, including Richard's Things, The Glittering Prizes, Oxbridge Blues, and most recently Coast to Coast, as well as the original screenplays for John Schlesinger's Darling, for which he won an Academy Award, and Stanley Donen's Two for the Road. He has adapted for the screen the works of Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd), Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head), Henry James (Daisy Miller) and Arthur Schnitzler (Traumnovelle, filmed as Eyes Wide Shut). He is married with three children and divides his time between France and England.

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ard the rumors.

He was a hermit. He refused to fly and wouldn't be driven at more than thirty miles an hour. He avoided having his picture taken and was terrified of being assassinated. As a filmmaker, he was obsessed with perfection. He insisted on total control of every facet of the process. Simple scenes required one hundred takes. No wonder he made only six movies in the past thirty-five years.

But what was he really like?

For more than two years, Frederic Raphael collaborated closely with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of what was to be the director's final movie, Eyes Wide Shut. Over time, as his professional caution was replaced by a certain affection, Kubrick lowered his guard for Raphael as he never had with journalists or biographers, to reveal much about his early life in the cinema and of the reverses and humiliations he had to endure. They spoke for hours about a variety of subjects, from Julius Caesar to the Holocaust, from Kubrick's views about

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0345437764
• ISBN 13: 9780345437761
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 190